In Switzerland, a bold initiative is under way: the freezing of human faeces to preserve global biodiversity. This isn’t just about safeguarding nature’s diversity of plants and animals – human gut ...

Dog faeces can still be troublesome thousands of years after being dumped. Archaeologists can end up in deep doodoo if they mistake it for human faeces. But now an artificial intelligence system has ...

ECOSYSTEMS ARE complex things, and monitoring their health is hard. To track every species would be impossible, so ecologists commonly focus on those that, like canaries in coal mines, are thought to ...

GO FOR a bracing winter stroll in a major US city and you will be inhaling more than vehicle fumes. A new study has demonstrated for the first time that during winter most of the airborne bacteria in ...

Doctors in ancient Rome used human feces in remedies for wounds and eye infections A 1,900-year-old glass vial from Pergamon contained faecal residue mixed with herbs The mixture included thyme, ...

A study has claimed to show that modern ‘green’ products recycled from human excreta are excellent – and importantly, safe – fertilizers to use on food crops. The idea of using human urine and faeces ...

The public have been urged to stop putting faeces out in their household waste after a worker was “spattered by faeces” while collecting trash on Serpentine Road. Lieutenant-Colonel David Burch, the ...

Australian entomologist thinks unusual look could be a means of deceiving potential predators Nick Squires is The Telegraph’s Rome correspondent, covering Italy, the Vatican, Greece and the Balkans.